Hiram B. Granbury

Hiram Bronson Granbury (1 March 1831-30 November 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Franklin in 1864.

Biography
Hiram Bronson Granbury was born in Copiah County, Mississippi, United States on 1 March 1831, and he worked as a lawyer after graduating from Baylor University. After Texas seceded from the Union in 1861, Granbury raised a company of Waco volunteers to serve in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and he was captured at Fort Donelson in 1862. In August 1862, he was exchanged, and he became commander of the 7th Texas Infantry Regiment. He served in Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee in northern Mississippi during the 1863 Vicksburg campaign. On 29 February 1864, Granbury was promoted to Brigadier-General, fighting at Chattanooga and Atlanta before serving under John Bell Hood in the Tennessee campaign of late 1864. Granbury was killed while charging the US Army breastworks at the Battle of Franklin, one of six Confederate generals to be killed in the battle.